...has conducted several “leaver” studies to determine how many former welfare recipients returned to the rolls. The Urban Institute found that about 22 percent of all U.S. families that left welfare between 1997 and 1999 returned by 1999. Taking these statistics into account, HHS’s dramatic caseload figures start to look a little less miraculous. Welfare reform’s five-year anniversary came and went this August with barely a...
...the chicken sandwiches. However, these customers likely don’t know that their money is being donated to anti-gay marriage organizations, some of which are widely considered hate groups, such as the Family Research Council. A 1999 Family Research Council pamphlet described the homosexual agenda as aiming to “abolish all age of consent laws and to eventually recognize pedophiles as the ‘prophets’ of a new sexual order.” Chick-fil-A also dona...
...shot and killed him. Beazley was 17 at the time of the crime, and in 2002 was lethally injected, making the U.S. one of only a handful of countries to still execute citizens for crimes they committed when they were minors. In 1999 the U.S. executed Sean Sellers for crimes he committed at the age of 16. But it’s not just what we do as Americans, it’s how we do it. When I read that in April, thousands of Norwegians gathered to sing “Children of Rai...
...rent economic climate. Spain was hit harder than most by the 2007 sovereign debt crisis. Going into 2008, their trade deficit was 10 percent of GDP, and a property bubble that had seen real estate prices rise 200 percent from 1999 to 2007 had developed as a result of a massive increase in personal debt and an unregulated credit market. When the bubble popped, the construction industry collapsed, and since the labor market had also been experienci...
...cent during Yeltsin’s reign or that the capitalism he introduced was riddled with corruption; the larger issue was that Russia’s confidence in its stability and pride in its strength had vanished. When Yeltsin stepped down in 1999, power was passed to his chosen successor, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. Putin further increased the strength of the central government (its role in both civic life and the private businesses world), returning stability...
...hammy” for the Pakistani populace, the ruling Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has become increasingly corrupt and inept while the Pakistani military, carrying a checkered resume that includes government coup d’etats in 1958 and 1999, has slowly lost the popular support it once commanded. Due to the declining standard of living and security for most Pakistani civilians, there has been more civilian resistance than ever before. But, as Rashid points...
...n account quite contrary to the story Kissinger has told – in public, at least – ever since that meeting took place. “Timor was never discussed with us when we were in Indonesia,” he told a New York audience in 1995. And in a 1999 radio interview, he explained that Timor was mentioned only when “We were told at the airport as we left Jakarta that either that day or the next day they intended to take East Timor.” Actually, thanks to the independen...
...elating to capital markets. While its measures faded away as commercial banks found ways to engage in off-balance sheet and speculative activities, Glass-Steagall was only officially repealed via the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act in 1999. The repeal of the act removed all boundaries between commercial banking and other financial activities while allowing commercial banks to acquire non-bank financial institutions. Some saw its repeal as an opportunity t...
...rchestrated by the Kremlin itself, Vladmir Putin’s adviser, Gleb Pavlosky, as well as Russian political technologists Marat Gelman and Igor Shuvalov, worked on the political scene for the Social Democratic Party in Ukraine in 1999 and pushed for the presidency of Leonid Kuchma. Kuchma won the election and helped significantly improve the Russian-Ukrainian relationship. However, a clear struggle for power emerged when Russian political technologis...
...by a lack of significant influence in the area. Orenstein characterized their research as being from a more “hawkish” perspective. The first graph in Orenstein’s presentation tracked the changes in levels of democracy between 1999 and 2010 for Russia and its entire region using data from Freedom House. On the top right portion, or the most democratic, was located a group of European Union member states who had achieved and maintained higher level...
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